Brush up your Shakespeare - Kiss Me Kate (1953) - Movie Version
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- The girls today in society go for classical poetry
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides
One must know Homer, and believe me, Beau
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope
Dainty Debbies will call you a dope
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The Bard of Stratford on Avon
{Refrain}
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
Just declaim a few lines from Othella
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? Much ado about nussing
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
With the wife of the British ambessida
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
Make her tike it, what's more As You Like It
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet
They will not give a damn or a damlet
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap'll have honey upon it
When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your Measure for Measure
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Forsooth
And they'll all kow-tow - I' faith
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
Better mention "The Merchant Of Venice"
When her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace
If her virtue, at first, she defends---well
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well"
And if still she won't give you a bonus
You know what Venus got from Adonis
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - Odds bodkins
And they'll all kow-tow
{Refrain}
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If she then wants an all-by-herself night
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night"
If because of your heat she gets huffy
Simply play on and "Lay on, Macduffy!"
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Forsooth
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - We trou'
And they'll all kow-tow
You expected Wynn to be good, but to see Whitmore in this role simply made the duo perfect!
Keenan Wynn' parents and indeed grand parents were in Vaudeville. He was born in a trunk and learned to soft shoe and tap dance when he learned to walk
These two characters were the best part of the film... RIP James Whitmore and Keenan Wynn...
My mother told of day she met my father (about 1930). He was in a tree and quoted a Shakespeare sonnet to her.
Rest of the story: She was 15 years old,, he was 14.
@@davidllewis4075Ended badly for both
@@jamespfitz WTF is wrong with you?
@@davidllewis4075 Your lovely anecdote reminds me of this song:
_I still see_
_The apple-cheeked girl that you were_
_Hiding in treetops_
_Feeding the birds_
_Making up rhymes_
_How you loved pretty words..._
Great way to learn the plays of Shakespeare. This is my necices favorite musical same with king and I but she loves this one she quoted it after seeing it one time and singing the songs as well
James Whitmore totally steals this scene, and that's hard to do when one's appearing with Keenan Wynn. I just can't take my eyes off of him Mr. W!
These two characters will live forever in the history of musicals. The best version ever but always the audience’s favorites anywhere!
It takes a lot to steal the show from Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ann Miller, but these two did it. I suspect the reason Keel's back is to the camera the whole time is because he couldn't keep a straight face. I love it. I've always loved it.
Although Keenan Wynn was mainly a dramatic actor,I love his effortless soft shoe shuffle.I think he could probably dance a bit
His father Ed Wynn was a vaudeville star so I'm sure this came natural to him.
Incidentally, *Ed Wynn* voiced the *'Mad Hatter'* in *_Alice in Wonderland_* (1951) and played *'Uncle Albert'* in *_Mary Poppins_* (1964). He was also nominated for an *Oscar* for *_The Diary of Anne Frank_* (1959).
Musical comedy gangsters - the funniest people ever.
I prefer this version having grown up in Pacific Palisades, where Whitmore lived and Wynn's daughter attended junior high and high school with me.
Immer wieder schön und lustig ironisch. Danke dem alten Hollywood.
One of my favorite musicals.
one of the most beautiful musichall ever written
Masterpiece
thanks for this post... love Cole Porter and Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore are two of my favorite character actors
these two with the wiseguy accents talking shakespeare and tap dancing is a bee you ti ful oxy mo ron!!! (Brooklyn accent required)
Funny, in the 1950s the film version left out some of the more suggestive lyrics by Cole Porter.
Having sung this myself, there were several verses I left out :p
That's the Hays Office for ya!
Not very surprising at all. The 1950s were a very sexually repressed decade, and that was reflected in the arts.
This isn’t the whole song. As mentioned before, this was censored at the time. I was surprised the “kick her right in the Coriolanus” line made it. They did cut “When your baby is pleading for pleasure, let her sample your Measure for Measure”. Not too sure that would fly in Ike’s 1950’s America. Love the tap dance/soft shoe between verses. Great stuff.
This is really really great, it’s just too bad they couldn’t do the whole song due to the censors
There is a really great, full version of the song done recently in London. The guy on the left, Michael Jibson, won an Olivier Award (a British Tony award) for playing King George in the London production of Hamilton. Check it out.
th-cam.com/video/ocq0-LINGyw/w-d-xo.html
How wonderful. Loved this show when we did this at the Camden Civic Theater many years ago. What fun it was!!! Great songs!
Genius
pure magic ! brian
I recognized Howard Keel as Graham, and James Whitmore as one of the two guys… was the other guy Keenan Wynn? I didn’t realize legendary choreographer Bob Fosse was in this film.
CAST
Kathryn Grayson
as Lilli Vanessi 'Katherine'
Howard Keel
as Fred Graham 'Petruchio'
Ann Miller
as Lois Lane 'Bianca'
Keenan Wynn
Lippy
Bobby Van
'Gremio'
Tommy Rall
Bill Calhoun 'Lucentio'
James Whitmore
Slug
Kurt Kasznar
'Baptista'
Bob Fosse
'Hortensio'
Ron Randell
Cole Porter
Willard Parker
Tex Callaway
Dave O'Brien
Ralph
Claud Allister
Paul
Ann Codee
Suzanne
Carol Haney
Specialty Dancer
Jeanne Coyne
Specialty Dancer
Wynn and Whitmore. Would have liked to see him try that dance number in Shawshank.
When Digger Barnes first met Clayton Farlow
They cut the Sappho reference. Maybe the verse was too long.
And let her sample your Measure for Measure.
There needs to be sweeping changes by our besom pals. Brush Up! Your Shakespeare avatar. Be assured he was bristling - Coriolanus? Gentlemen and Ladies thou art divine. But absolutely no good at divining worth of various divers.
Tad and Edward. Honeys, I'm so sorry some of the people in Kiss Me Kate are "Fictionalized" (as we used to say) for your protection. Love, DOn xoxo
Robbie Hagberg was saying I'm sorry I missed your call I was on the phone with me and can do it on the road now and then I can do you think you send me the link to the road now I lost you guys your fault for a while it's been bus
No word that for centuries the authenticy of Shakespeare is doubted?
Yawn🙄 no only for conspiracy nutters.
Why would someone watch this song out of their own will this is so bad
You're a philistine.
You did.
Only someone with zero knowledge of cultural history would say something like that.
one of the most beautiful musichall ever written